On March 9th, 1979 a diva was born.Her name was Melina Nava Perez and she was ready to take on the world.Melina started out her career as a model when she won a Miss California beauty contest and also modeled athletic wear for Nike.Soon the wrestling bug bit her and she decided to become a professional wrestler in 2000.Melina started training at the School of Hard Knocks, owned by Jesse Hernandez.She made her pro debut in April 2002.She started to wrestle at some California wrestling promotions such as EWF and CRUSH under the ring names Kyra and Melanie Little Deer.She soon auditioned for WWE's Tough Enough where the winner will be signed to a contract with WWE.Melina was eliminated in the final cut for the first episode.After she was eliminated from the competition former WWE superstar Al Snow pulled her aside and encouraged her to keep on pursueing her dream as a wrestler.

Even though she was eliminated form the Tough Enough competition WWE still signed her to a developmental contract in 2004 and therefore our beautiful Melina debuted in then WWE developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling in March 2004.Melina's debuts angle was as real-life boyfriend John Hennigan's ex girlfriend.The Storyline had Melina debut to taunt John Hennigan along with Matt Cappotelli.However Melina turned on Cappotelli and aligned herself with John Hennigan who had then changed his name to Johnny Nitro.Soon after all of this Melina and Nitro teamed up with Joey Matthews (Joey Mercury) and therefore MNM was born.Together Melina led MNM to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship.It as also in OVW that Melina along with Nitro and Steve Adkins came up with her famous split entrance.While in OVW, Melina had made several appearences in the WWE.For example, on a Thanksgiving episode of SmackDown! in 2003, she dressed up as a Native American and was shown serving food and drinks.Melina made her first Raw appearance on November 29, 2004 when Randy Orton was the guest General Manager and hosted a diva lingerie fashion show.She made another Raw appearance in December, participating in a limbo contest when Chris Jericho was General Manager for the night.

MNM made their offcial WWE debut on the April 14,2005 editon of SmackDown! interupting Carlitos Cabana.During their debut they beat up Rey Mysterio and claimed that they will be the next Tag Team Champions.They soon faced the current Campions Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio and defeated them to mark their first reign as WWE Tag Team Champions.Over the next few months Melina's charactor became more egotistical and claimed herself to be "The Most Dominant Diva in the WWE".Soon after this claim she started to feud with Michelle McCool which ultimatly led to Melina's first match against McCool in which she won and McCool got injured.After a few more matches for Melina and even a title shot for the Womens Championship at Survivor Series, which she lost, and a few more title reigns for MNM it was time to say goodbye.MNM broke up at Judgement Day 2006 after MNM lost their titles to Paul London and Brian Kendrick.Nitro and Melina attacked Mercury blaming the lost on him.Melina also lost to rival Jillian Hall that night.Melina and Nitro confronted SmackDown! GM Teddy Long about the rough night which led to Melina slapping him and getting herself and Nitro kayfabe fired from the smackdown brand.

After a few weeks from getting fired from the SmackDown! brand Melina and Nitro made their RAW debut against John Cena which they lost.After about a year on the RAW brand Melina went solo and made history by defeating rival Mickie James and becoming the only former Tough Enough contestant to be WWE Womens Champion.Melina soon retained her title against James in the first ever Womens Falls Count Anywhere match in WWE history.Since then Melina is now a 3-time Womens champion and has feuded with the likes of Ashley Massaro, Trish Stratus, Candice Michelle, Mickie James, and most recently Beth Phoenix.We are sure that Melina is just getting started in her quest to being the greatest diva in WWE and i am sure it won't stop anytime soon.So get Ready and strap on your seatbelt cuz with Melina nothing is predictible and we are sure it is gonna be a bumpy ride.